Overview
- Description
- 05:17:59 Title: LIBERATION Allied camera teams from Russia, Britain, and the US filmed the liberation of the camps from 1944-1945.
05:18:04 Various camps. Bones. Passports, scissors, shoes, eyeglasses, zyklon B canisters.
05:19:06 Majdanek.
05:19:32 Mauthausen: Corpses on ground. Emaciated survivor walking, posing next to barbed wire fence. People in uniforms, grabbing potatoes from truck. Inmates offer food to liberators. Woman kisses hands of liberating soldier.
05:20:38 Bergen-Belsen: Bodies lying out in rows. Civilians tour camp. Women bury the dead. Bulldozer covers mass grave.
05:21:29 Auschwitz: Inmates/survivors line up before fence. - Duration
- 00:04:31
- Date
-
Event:
1944-1945
- Locale
-
Majdanek,
Poland
Auschwitz, Poland
Mauthausen, Austria
Bergen-Belsen, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Chronos-Media Filmarchiv
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 05:18:03:00 to 05:22:34:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 144 Film: 35 mm
Master 144 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 144 Film: 35 mm
Master 144 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 144 Film: 35 mm
Master 144 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 144 Film: 35 mm
Master 144 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 144 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 144 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 144 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 144 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Chronos-Media GmbH
- Conditions on Use
- Contact Chronos-Media at info@chronos-media.de for permission to reproduce and use this footage.
- Copyright Holder
- Chronos-Media GmbH
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- ALLIES ATROCITIES AUSCHWITZ BARBED WIRE BERGEN-BELSEN BULLDOZERS BURIALS CIVILIANS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES EYEGLASSES FOOD GRAVES LIBERATION MAJDANEK MASS GRAVES MAUTHAUSEN PASSPORTS POLAND POTATOES SHOES SOLDIERS/MILITARY SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES) SURVIVORS UNIFORMS USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION) VICTIMS' PROPERTY
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of film documents from Chronos-Media GmbH in Potsdam, Germany in 1989. Film and Video staff ordered videotape transfers in November 1991.
- Note
- Original film can label reads "Chronos / Israel-Dokumente / Akt 2".
- Film Source
- Chronos-Media GmbH
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2531
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:05
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